Titanium: Strong of Heart

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A man recently survived 100 days with a titanium heart until a donor heart was received. It looks like a car part or a piece of robotic equipment.

Since the world continues to move toward bionics, is there anything that you would want to enhance or replace via this technology in the future?

Would you consider integrating cyborg technology into your body?

MIT Technology Review Narrated: What the future holds for those born today.

Happy birthday, baby.

You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have watched over you almost since your conception. They let your parents listen in on your tiny heartbeat, track your gestation on an app, and post your sonogram on social media. Well before you were born, you were known to the algorithm.

How will you and the next generation of machines grow up together? We asked more than a dozen experts to imagine your joint future.

This is our latest story to be turned into a MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we’re publishing each week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Just navigate to MIT Technology Review Narrated on either platform, and follow us to get all our new content as it’s released.

When you might start speaking to robots

Google is only the latest to fuse large language models with robots. The trend has big implications.

By James O'Donnell, MIT Technology Review

March 18, 2025

“In short, two trends are converging from opposite directions: Robotics companies are increasingly leveraging AI, and AI giants are now building robots. OpenAI, for example, which shuttered its robotics team in 2021, started a new effort to build humanoid robots this year. In October, the chip giant Nvidia declared the next wave of artificial intelligence to be “physical AI.””

Now imagine integrating large language models into humans.

I'm already partly cyborged.
I contain parts made of platinum, nickel/titanium, Dacron and polyethylene.
I have more PE due to go in next month.
If I make it to 2050 I'll probably be half synthetic.

Merging with Machine

Merging with machine, DIY biohacker community seeks cybernetic reality

ABC News' Nathan Rousseau Smith went to the annual Grindfest meetup where biohackers implant themselves with microchips while advancing their cybernetic mission on regulation-friendly Roatán.

March 25, 2025